A Study Of "The Essays For A Dream Of Red Mansions"

The thesis researches a study of the Redology named “The Essays for A Dream of Red Mansions”,which is firstly published in 1950 s.The author Jiang Hesen was tempered by Marxist historical materialism in the 1940 s.In base of a solid theoretical foundation,he quite freely applied the social-historical analysis method of historical materialism to the exploration of "A Dream of Red Mansions".Therefore,the "The Essays for A Dream of Red Mansions" produced epoch-making theoretical significance at that time,and even in contemporary times,it still has extraordinary influence.Limited by the period background and the historical environment of the book creation,the citations involved in the book are rigorous and ambiguous,and some of the citations are inconsistent with the "Geng Chen" version and "Cheng Yi" version of Jiang Hesen’s notes.So that we can see the documents that Jiang Hesen can explore are very limited,but he still accurately captures the typical feature of the characters in "A Dream of Red Mansions" in a handful of materials and gives them a vivid and profound academic evaluation.From today’s point of view,the study of the characters of the "A Dream of Red Mansions" is so vast,but there are very few similar works that can compete with this great work.One side,it is attributed to the outstanding achievements of “The Essays for A Dream of Red Mansions”,also the guidance and support of the Marxist methodology is essential.But what we can’t ignore is Jiang Hesen’s interpretation perspective.While applying the Marxist methodology,he made a lot of research on the typical feature of the typical characters through the careful study of the text and the humanity as the starting point.Even facing a character who is contrary to his own aesthetics,he can analyze the reasons behind the character formation from a specific social and historical environment with an objective vision.Therefore,the "A Dream of Red Mansions" presents objectivity and fairness in the interpretation perspective,and the credibility of its academic arguments also increases.Even in the late 1950 s,due to the pressure of the environment and the intervention of vulgar sociology,Jiang Hesen had some changes in his research perspective,but with the admiration of realism and his love for "A Dream of Red Mansions",Jiang Hesen always followed humanity and the characters were judged from the perspective of beauty.Through the evaluation of the characters of "A Dream of Red Mansions",Jiang Hesen also has a deeper understanding of Cao Xueqin’s outlook on life and aesthetics.This is a virtuous cycle,and it is also a return to the textual thinking.This style of literary criticism has had a profound influence on the Redology academic circle.In some similar works published later,readers can vaguely feel the effect from "The Essays for A Dream of Red Mansions".